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A Christmas gift book for every child!

Short sweet fairy tales and wonderful poems, gathered from the rich treasure trove of Gianni Rodari, are published in the days before Christmas in the collection “Favorite Christmas Stories”. The Italian is one of the most beloved writers among children all over the world, and publishing house “Ciela” revives both known and previously unpublished in Bulgaria works – all with beautiful new illustrations by the artist Damyan Damyanov. The latest creation of Rodari and the young Bulgarian illustrator, “Favorite Christmas Stories”, is already in bookstores.

Vera Petrova, known for her translations of authors such as Margaret Mazzantini and Paolo Giordano, also translated these previously unpublished Christmas stories by Gianni Rodari. All of them are arranged in several sections – On Christmas Day, Christmas Poems, The Christmas Tree, Snow, Snow, Snow, Happy New Year!, The Befana Comes at Night. Children and parents will have fun together, turning the pages of the edition and entering a world of snow and laughter, whimsical like a dream, colorful like a kaleidoscope. How among the Magi an Indian appears, how a helicopter decorates a huge Christmas tree, what is common between a snowman, a hen, and a cat (oh, how Rodari loves cats!), and what do the residents of Rome do on New Year's Eve? The author says that “questions with two question marks should always be answered – at any cost”, so all this finds a place in “Favorite Christmas Stories”. This anthology for children collects the most beautiful Christmas and New Year texts of the inimitable Gianni Rodari. Everyone from 5 to 85 years old will feel the magical festive atmosphere from decorating the tree, arranging gifts, through snow games and the celebration of the new year. The hardcover and watercolor illustrations by Damyan Damyanov make “Favorite Christmas Stories” a great gift for the holiday season.

“If even one single child, no matter how small, though distant, remains without a gift and starts crying, then Christmas is wrong and it is necessary to fix it, which is wrong, just as when in an equation we have made a wrong decision.” — From “The Book of Questions” by Gianni Rodari.